Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) is a national study of 1759 Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children living across urban, regional and remote areas of Australia. The study is in its 11th wave of annual data collection, having collected extensive data on topics including birth and early life influences, parental health and well-being, identity, cultural engagement, language use, housing, racism, school engagement and academic achievement, and social and emotional well-being. The current paper reviews a selection of major findings from Footprints in Time relating to the developmental origins of health and disease for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Opportunities for new researchers to conduct further research utilizing the LSIC data set are also presented.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, children, early life influences, Indigenous, longitudinal
Research Division:	Indigenous Studies
Research Group:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community
Research Field:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sociology
Objective Division:	Indigenous
Objective Group:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services
Objective Field:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services not elsewhere classified
UTAS Author:	Walter, M (Professor Maggie Walter)
ID Code:	133974
Year Published:	2019
Web of Science® Times Cited:	15
Deposited By:	Office of the School of Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2019-07-17
Last Modified:	2022-08-29
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